"What muscle stimulation as a training has done is for the very, very first time, since 3000 years, changed the training itself."
Björn Woltermann
EFR 554: Electro Muscular Stimulation and The Future of Strength Training and Injury Rehabilitation with Björn Woltermann
Björn Woltermann is the Founder and CEO of Katalyst, the world’s most efficient workout. Katalyst is the first and only full-body Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training designed and FDA-cleared for home use.
Björn discovered EMS training after he had injured his lower back and was told he needed to strengthen his core. He began using EMS to build muscle and in just 20 minutes, he achieved total-body results that would have taken him 2 hours in a regular gym workout.
Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, with all the disease and obesity present in our world, Björn is confident that “this technology, delivered right, can change the CDC statistics.” From healing athletic injuries to osteoporosis, Katalyst seems to be on the right track to doing just that.
In this discussion, they dive deep into how Electro Muscle Stimulation training works and the various ways you can use Katalyst to get specific, personalized results. Björn shares eye-opening insights into the science behind building muscle with EMS training versus traditional training, along with the data gathered on injury prevention and recovery through EMS.
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Key Highlights
Electro Muscle Stimulation helps your body contract, activate, and workout your muscles. It can be used on both recovering muscles and healthy muscles, at any strength level, to further build and strengthen your entire body.
Normally, your body doesn’t have the ability to access every single muscle fiber, unless you’re in a high-stress, life or death situation. Katalyst’s technology accesses those muscles for you so you don’t even have to think about it!
After 6 weeks of doing EMS training, Bjoern was off his pain medication and didn’t feel any pain from his prior back injury.
A fully trained athlete can see single digit percentage performance increases after 8 weeks of using Katalyst. You can run faster, jump higher, heal faster, and more.
There’s so much fear and intimidation that keeps people from going to the gym. With Katalyst, you don’t have to go to the gym at all!
Powerful Quotes by Björn Woltermann
What muscle stimulation as a training has done is for the very, very first time, since 3000 years, changed the training itself.
It’s also fun because a lot is happening and you learn something about your body because you get access to certain parts of your body you didn’t have access [to] before.
I was like “what just happened?” I just stood [for] 20 minutes in front of a device and I’m sore as hell… So, I have them a shot, I went every Monday for 20 minutes… and six weeks later I woke up one Sunday morning and I told my wife I haven’t taken a pill in a week and I’m pain-free.
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